Director of the Year Award for Early Education Institutions - ADEK Awards
Early Education Awards
Director of the Year Award for Early Education Institutions
About the Award
This award recognizes a director’s exceptional leadership and management skills and spotlights role models who serve as an inspiration to early educational leaders across Abu Dhabi. It celebrates directors, whose work to ensure staff, children, and families feel supported and included, is widely praised.
Prize
AED 50,000
For each winner
Participation
Eligibility
Directors of Early Education Institutions with a minimum of two years experience in their current functional position, and a minimum of five years leadership experience within the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Any eligible director may either be nominated or can self-nominate for this award.
Submission Requirements
Your submission must include the following:
Examples of the director’s inspirational and innovative leadership to implement key improvement priorities across the Early Education Institutions (max 500 words).
Description of how the director, as a leader, has improved children's achievement. Include specific references to any supporting quantitative and qualitative data (max 500 words).
Overview of how the director successfully engages with parents and the wider community (max 500 words).
Explanation of how the director continues to learn, grow, and develop as a leader (max 500 words).
A video including stakeholder testimonials (not exceeding 3 minutes) to support the application. It is important for our judges to get a feel of the nominee as a person, not just a leader and what inspired him/her to become an educational leader. Your video will be a chance to provide us with deeper insights from parents and colleagues who can share the unique examples in practice that make the nominee stand out.